Officials have stated that a world without any HIV positive babies may be a possibility by 2015 if the current health investment rates are maintained.

The bright prospect was presented in an annual report released by The Global Fund to fight HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis, which comes right before a funding meeting in The Hague, due to take place on March 24.

The report says that at least 3,600 lives per day were saved in 2009 by the programs backed by the fund. It also reveals that since its creation, in 2002, an estimated total of 4.9 million lives have been saved.

Michel Kazatchkine, Head of the Global Fund, says, "A world where no children are born with HIV is truly possible by 2015".

"No other area of development has seen such a direct and rapid correlation between donor investments and live-saving impact as these investments in fighting AIDS, TB and malaria", said Kazatchkine.

The programs, funded by The Global Fund, provided Anti-retroviral treatment to 2.5 million people in 2009, which includes 790,000 HIV positive pregnant women. This implies that the chances that babies will be born with the virus were reduced substantially.

The group estimates that to meet its goal of totally eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, $13 billion to $20 billion in US alone, will be needed to be reached from 2011 to 2013.